This week application container enthusiasts descended upon Barcelona, Spain to see the latest and greatest from the fast-growing container industry.

This week application container enthusiasts descended upon Barcelona, Spain to see the latest and greatest from the fast-growing container industry. Here are some of the most important news announcements from the conference.

Key features:Docker Universal Control Plane 1.0 is an on-premises solution enabling operations to provision the compute, network and storage for Dockerized applications on any infrastructure and giving developers agile self-service capabilities to deploy and manage applications.

Key features: Enables developers to deploy microservices, packaged as Docker containers into a Cloud Foundry-based PaaS. Includes Helion Code Engine, a CI/CD service for automating the build, test and deploy workflow for code merged into a Git repository through a Docker Trusted Registry and into the Cloud Foundry runtime.

Key features: Automates the deployment of Docker container hosts from HPE OneView, enabling IT and DevOps to rapidly provision bare metal infrastructure for Docker environments within an organization’s own datacenter and on their own secure networks.

Key features: Bitnami Stacksmith provides high-quality, updated and curated application components used for both development and production within Docker, removing the need for developers to build Docker components from scratch.

Key features: In partnership with Redapt, Rancher Labs created a hyper-converged infrastructure platform for containers, simplifying operations and reducing the cost to build and run private container services from scratch.

When it's available: The product will become generally available in the first half of 2016.

Key features: DCHQ helps enterprises containerize Java apps. It integrates with 13 clouds/virtualization platforms and allows developers to move to containers without making changes to their app development processes. Application monitoring, auto-scaling, backups and continuous delivery are available to manage apps in production.

When it's available -Already live with v3.0 of DCHQ On-Premise and DCHQ.io Hosted PaaS

Key features: Photon Controller is a distributed, API-driven, multi-tenant control plane designed for extremely high scale and churn, and can deliver Docker Swarm, Cloud Foundry, Kubernetes, and Mesos, to application developers on-demand.

VMware has now open sourced it.

When it's available: VMware Photon Controller is now available as open source software (as of November 16, 2015)